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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
@sarabutler.bsky.social
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Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 9d
Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge.

#MedievalSky

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Assistant Professor in Celtic
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, within the Faculty of English wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 September 2026. We seek applicants who have research and
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 14d
New guest post by Helen Rutherford.

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Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners’ Districts
In this guest post, Helen Rutherford explores what a unique atlas of Victorian coroners’ districts might tell us about technologies of knowledge and death investigation.
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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 17d
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social

Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 18d
On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii"

by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii*
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
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Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social · 18d
JOB KLAXON!

CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY AT @ox.ac.uk: please publicize!

Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History
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Job Details
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 18d
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "The Court of Star Chamber's Record(s) and Reports (2021):

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The Court of Star Chamber’s Record(s) and Reports
The Court of Star Chamber produced many records, but was it ‘a court of record’? How can we look ‘at’ its records and not just ‘through’ them?
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18d
new newsletter from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social on a volcano, ice cores, and the Black Death (and the humility of what research can tell us) #medievalsky

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A Volcano Caused the Black Death?
Plague on a Boat
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Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 18d
Routledge End of Year sale--20% off Water in World History. For anyone considering adopting for classroom use, I'm happy to zoom in to meet with your class!
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Water in World History
This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death. Water is one of the mos...
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 19d
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
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Important notice: AI-generated archival references
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 21d
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 22d
Examples of medieval mobility aids - a gallery - wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...
Medieval mobility aids
There are clues in the margins of medieval manuscripts to suggest that disabled people in the past made long pilgrimages, and were helped on their journeys by mobility aids remarkably similar to those...
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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 22d
A thread of my articles at Wellcome Stories. Starting with some very good dogs.
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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages
Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 22d
📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢

We've been busy - catch up with our latest 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post 👇
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Find our more about our recent milestones, and the building of our project database 💻📜

@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #skystorians
A screenshot of a working version of the project database. The cells of the datasheet are grey, with the top row highlighted blue. The datasheet shows lists of testator names, their occupation, location and archive reference.

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 23d
Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based)
This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created
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Dr Eleanor J Bailey @mediev-el.bsky.social · 24d
Really pleased to have my short article out with @epoch-history.bsky.social on the experience of disability during the Hundred Years' War! The rest of the issue is a fantastic read and it was lovely to work with the editors and @joshcoulthard.bsky.social.
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The Experience of Disability and Becoming Disabled in the Hundred Years’ War
‘In our said service he was and is mutilated in one of his arms’ (‘en notre dit service il a este et est mutile dun de ses bras’), is the text justifying the pardon by the council of the King of Engla...
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 25d
My latest post for Legal History Miscellany!

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Bracton and the History of Emotions
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 30 November 2025. Even though medievalist Barbara Rosenwein was among the first group of English-language historians to embrace emotion as an analytical construct, medieva…
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Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 25d
Don’t forget to check out Hannah Scott-Ravikumar’s article on the Jews of Medieval Poland and their modern reception also in issue 22 of @epoch-history.bsky.social, it was a pleasure to work with them!
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The Burned Statute: Medieval Jews, Modern Poland
In 2021, at a white nationalist rally in Kalisz, Poland, a statute issued over eight centuries ago was burned to cheers from the assembled crowd.
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · Nov 24
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: 'Acid' Assault in the Twentieth Century" (2021):

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Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century
By Cassie Watson; posted 26 September 2021. With recent posts having examined the eighteenth-century origins of acid throwing and some of its main nineteenth-century characteristics, this one consi…
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · Nov 21
Tom McSweeney saying such lovely things about my L&HR article "Context Matters":

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Unbroken Tradition" or Broken Chain? Contextualizing Medieval Abortion Law - Legal History
Sara M. Butler, Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Chose to Regulate Women's Pregnant Bodies, Law & Hist. Rev. (2024).Thomas J. McSweeneyIn Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organiz...
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · Nov 21
Fantastic guest post by Susannah Wilson (Warwick) about murder, Munchausen Syndrome and the history of morphine!

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The Body by the Canal: The Abduction and Murder of Henriette Barbey in 1882
In this guest post, Susannah Wilson gives a snapshot of the killing and trial at the centre of her new book on forensic psychology and female violence: ‘A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Afflic…
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Nov 9
These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...

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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · Nov 3
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Butler, "'Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges': Defamation in the Court of Later Medieval England" (2021)

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“Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges”: Defamation in the Courts of Later Medieval England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 23 Aug. 2021. Like many other teenagers, the only reason I enjoyed leafing through the occasional Shakespearean play in high school was that they provided me with a glorio…
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